The title, "a selection". There are 550 in this book, out of about 2400 in the original. So, this is rather a "reduction" for the present edition. Even these 550 may show the range of experience and of poetic response. See a leaf, a bloom in the rock, a child, a star, through whose eyes? Will images words come through a peasant boy, or inspired by a rational mind, or a breeze? Will a bud, make your eyes shine, will it bring you tears? What is ecstasy, what is agony, what is indifference, with no sharing? A kitten and a child find in each other what they otherwise miss. Each "seed" is a glimpse, a cognition, a breath? The reader will say.